Overview
- New MedGlobal assessments from recent escapees describe El Fasher as uninhabitable, with more than 90% of homes damaged or looted and severe shortages of food, water and healthcare.
- Screenings report acute malnutrition in one in five children under five, 38% of pregnant and lactating women and 60% of adolescent girls who fled after days on foot to Al Dabbah.
- Recent attacks include an Oct. 10 strike on an IDP camp that killed over 60 people, including 22 children, shelling that killed 13 at Saudi Hospital on Oct. 7 and 13 at a mosque the next day.
- The RSF has tightened its 18‑month siege with earthen berms encircling the city, communications are largely cut, and only limited SAF airdrops have reached defenders as hundreds of thousands remain trapped.
- The UN has urged an end to the siege and around 100 aid groups seek a humanitarian corridor, while a Foreign Policy analysis details new allegations that the UAE has obstructed diplomacy and supplied the RSF, claims the UAE denies.